Before/After Edits

[M0nk3y]

In order to become a better photographer, I feel like seeing other people's before/after edits would help me improve post processing.

If you don't want to participate because you feel like your work should be kept secret, you do this as a business...etc, that's fine. It's just an idea I see on other forums I thought it would be a good addition here.

Just post the shot out of the camera and the final product

I'll start:

Comments on how to better PP is always appreciated

RAW:
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/8797/dsc0062xw.jpg

LR3:
Exposure +1.1
Recovery 36
Fill Light 2
Blacks 15
Brightness +75
Contrast +50
Clarity +100

Highlights -43
Lights +4
Darks -43
Shadows -25

B&W
Red -10
Orange -19
Yellow -23
Green -27
Aqua -19
Blue +9
Purple +15
Magenta +4

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7008/6420399133_317614ddd4_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/m0nk3yy31/6420399133/)
Into the Unknown b/w (http://www.flickr.com/photos/m0nk3yy31/6420399133/) by M0nk3yy31 (http://www.flickr.com/people/m0nk3yy31/), on Flickr

RAW:
http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/903/dsc0042vn.jpg

LR3:
Exposure +1
Recovery +100
Fill Light 31
Blacks 5
Brightness +32
Contrast +50
Clarity +82

Highlights +100
Lights +13
Darks +19
Shadows +4

Hue
Red -3
Orange -3
Yellow -34
Green +14
Aqua +3
Blue +23

Saturation
Red +43
Orange +26
Yellow +20
Green +28
Aqua +30
Blue +46

Luminance
Red +46
Orange +3
Yellow +6

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6103/6408880117_c22cbfd74b_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/m0nk3yy31/6408880117/)
Happy Holidays (http://www.flickr.com/photos/m0nk3yy31/6408880117/) by M0nk3yy31 (http://www.flickr.com/people/m0nk3yy31/), on Flickr

[UdubBadger]

If you are going to do this right, list the means of adjustments which you used to create the after versions.

[M0nk3y]

If you are going to do this right, list the means of adjustments which you used to create the after versions.

My apologizes. OP updated with data.

[UdubBadger]

no apology needed. Just saying if the goal is education, you'd probably want to know how to accomplish the end result instead of just seeing it.

[C Withers Media]

no apology needed. Just saying if the goal is education, you'd probably want to know how to accomplish the end result instead of just seeing it.

I could eat a page with burning and dodging layers.

[UdubBadger]

I didn't mean each SPECIFIC step, just like...

"decreased saturation, added high pass filter, gaussian blur, levels adjustments for more contrast and balanced the background with curves adjustment."

or something like that.